Simulation setup using Docker Compose - osrf/mbzirc Wiki

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The final evaluation runs will be done on Open Robotics's cloud simulation platform that will execute the run over multiple machine instances. To reproduce a similar setup that will be used, we provide a script to generate a Docker-Compose config file for launching multiple containers locally on a single machine.

The script is located in the mbzirc/docker/compose. Please see the README.md file for usage instructions.

You will need the following in order to launch a simulation with Docker Compose:

We will demonstrate how the setup works with the example mbzirc_seed solution and its team config file.

First run the gen_docker_compose.py script to generate a Docker Compose yaml file. The mbzirc_seed argument is the name of the docker image which we built using these Docker files.
```
python3 gen_docker_compose.py --config `ros2 pkg prefix mbzirc_seed`/share/mbzirc_seed/config/team.yaml --image mbzirc_seed
```
This should generate a mbzirc_compose.yaml file containing 1 simulation container, 3 bridge containers, and 3 solution containers.
To launch the whole simulation setup, run:
```
docker compose -f mbzirc_compose.yaml up -d
```
Once launched, the gazebo window should pop up. After a while, simulation should start running and the 2 quadrotors and 1 USV will be moving.

To bring down all the containers, run

docker compose -f mbzirc_compose.yaml down